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Updated: June 18, 2025
"And look at how I've tried and see what it has come to Bessie so high-headed and airy she makes fun of us, and Fred a gambler and a drunkard, and 'most a thief. And it's all that horrid hundred thousand dollars!" The book in Mr. Smith's hand slipped to the floor with a bang; but no one was noticing Mr. Smith. "Oh, Hattie, don't blame the hundred thousand dollars," cried Miss Maggie.
"He puts on damned high-headed airs; but I'm not done with him yet." And Fenton meanwhile stood looking at that thin fluttering film on the red coals with despair in his heart.
She thought she would go with the children to their boarding-place, havin' knowed Miss Eliphalet Snow in their young days, when Miss Snow wuz high-headed and looked down on her, and wantin' to dant her, I spoze, with accounts of her foreign travel.
Instead he reached down for his gaudy Navajo saddle blanket, offered it to the sorrel to smell, and then slid it gently upon his back. But when he stooped for his saddle the high-headed horse rebelled. With ears pricked suspiciously forward and eyes protruding he glared at the clattering thing in horror, snorting deep at every breath.
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Don't you dare talk to me like that. Just remember who you are. I once owned serfs myself; at my place, such people as you didn't dare peep, they walked the chalk. I didn't let your sort get high-headed! GAVRÍLOVNA. That time's gone by. God gives a vicious cow no horns. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Oh, you monsters, wretches! You want me to die.
But when I went back into the room, I see Kezier was mad. And she said in the course of our conversation, that "she thought Cicely was too much took up on the subject of intemperance, and some folks said she was crazy on the subject." Kezier was always a high-headed sort of a woman, without a nerve in her body.
The pumps stopped abruptly, all the tools were removed, and as the foreman and miners who had been their boarders rolled up their beds and prepared to depart, the high-headed Virginia buried her face in her hands and retired to her bedroom to weep. And then to cap it all that miserable assayer sent in his belated report. "Gold a trace. Silver blank. Copper blank. Lead blank. Zinc blank."
Through that gate dashed presently a pair of proud, high-headed black horses "star-gazers," as the Kentuckians call them with a rhythmic beat of high-lifted feet, and the boy's eyes narrowed as the carriage behind them swept by him, for in it were Colonel Pendleton and Gray, with eager face and flashing eyes.
The high-headed horses with their shining harness, the smart brougham, so spotless that it was hard to imagine its wheels ever touching the street, the men in their unobtrusive livery, spoke of unostentation in its most perfect and most expensive form.
The ol' man kept dependin' more an' more on Dick, until finally Dick got to signin' checks, orderin' all the supplies, an' takin' full charge; while Jabez spent most of his time taggin' around after Barbie. They was like a couple o' young children; but Barbie wasn't quite so high-headed with Dick after the dog affair, an' they got to ridin' together quite a bit themselves.
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